ARTH 3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Giorgio Vasari, Bitesize, Art History
19 Dec 2016
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Le c tu re 4 (s e p te m b e r 30) . Bio g ra p h y a n d arc h . People who are worth studying, are people who"s biographies are worth reviewing. A nice chronological format to the study of the past. Studying them will tell us something about the period, as if they are an index for that specific time"s events. Wh a t is th e a p p e a l? from start to end, we all know that people die, and approximately how long they live. We can also learn the intentions behind people"s decisions. There"s an appeal because their lives are important for a reason, they are the celebrities for architectural historians. Biography relates us to the built environment, it connects us to the people who make the buildings, and the buildings themselves. A biography can be consistently dug into, discovering newer and newer information.
